Researchers have concluded that cities improve conditions for living by roughly 15% across the board on average ... 15% more goods and services, healthcare support and citizen protection, etc.
With the inveigling of mass communication ability for everyone, the concentration of populace in cities inorder to benefit from technological advancement is no longer the reality. So what Whittle is actually dancing around is the next great advancement of the human race into a species connected and functioning in all aspects of existence via an Internet 'domicile'.
I can't help but take another step along the though journey, and see how such development of the species fits with what the Bible tells us of our future. A species totally dependant upon 'Internet connectivity' is also a species vulnerable to empowerment of a central controller of that connectivity. Such empowerment if held by a benevolent ruler ... excuse me, we're having a series of earthquakes here in E. TN presently!
Thank you so much for sharing your insights and especially your caution about prophecy and an internet-connected populace.
Currently there is no central controller on the internet, but intelligence gathering by listening suggests the process could be bidirectional.